Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Children and youth
Understanding the Rise in Rural Child Poverty, 2003-14
Examines the causes of a decade-long net increase in rural child poverty. Provides data on rural and urban child poverty and discusses different ways of measuring child poverty. Also provides rural-urban data on income, demographics, and income inequality.
Additional links: Report Summary
Author(s): Thomas Hertz, Tracey Farrigan
Date: 05/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Examines the causes of a decade-long net increase in rural child poverty. Provides data on rural and urban child poverty and discusses different ways of measuring child poverty. Also provides rural-urban data on income, demographics, and income inequality.
Additional links: Report Summary
Author(s): Thomas Hertz, Tracey Farrigan
Date: 05/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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15 Million Kids in Health Care Deserts: Can Telehealth Make a Difference?
Highlights healthcare access problems for children of vulnerable populations living in rural and poverty stricken areas. Discusses how telehealth can be implemented to overcome these barriers. Describes several case studies focused on improving access to healthcare services for children, including a rural school-based telehealth program.
Author(s): Dale Alverson, Julie Hall-Barrow, Denise M. Dion, et al.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Children's Health Fund
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Highlights healthcare access problems for children of vulnerable populations living in rural and poverty stricken areas. Discusses how telehealth can be implemented to overcome these barriers. Describes several case studies focused on improving access to healthcare services for children, including a rural school-based telehealth program.
Author(s): Dale Alverson, Julie Hall-Barrow, Denise M. Dion, et al.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Children's Health Fund
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Early Care, Early Education, and Home Visiting in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Design Options for Assessing Early Childhood Needs
Highlights a report presenting a framework for future studies of the unmet needs in early childhood care, education, and home visiting in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Identifies study designs using existing data on the national level and designs requiring new data collection at the community level.
Author(s): Lizabeth Malone, Emily Knas, Michael Cavanaugh, Jerry West
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica Policy Research
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Highlights a report presenting a framework for future studies of the unmet needs in early childhood care, education, and home visiting in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Identifies study designs using existing data on the national level and designs requiring new data collection at the community level.
Author(s): Lizabeth Malone, Emily Knas, Michael Cavanaugh, Jerry West
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica Policy Research
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Transforming Child Welfare Outcomes for Alaska Native Children: Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Discusses a 5 year sustainable plan to transform outcomes for Alaska Native children in the child welfare system, and includes consultant conclusions and recommendations.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Alaska Department of Health
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Discusses a 5 year sustainable plan to transform outcomes for Alaska Native children in the child welfare system, and includes consultant conclusions and recommendations.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Alaska Department of Health
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Integration of Oral Health Into the Well-Child Visit at Federally Qualified Health Centers: Study of 6 Clinics, August 2014-March 2015
Results and analysis of observations and 39 interviews with 42 administrators and staff at 6 clinics in rural, small community, and urban areas in Massachusetts and Maryland. Includes patient demographics and structural characteristics of clinics.
Author(s): Judith Bernstein, Christina Gebel, Clemencia Vargas, et al.
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 13
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
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Results and analysis of observations and 39 interviews with 42 administrators and staff at 6 clinics in rural, small community, and urban areas in Massachusetts and Maryland. Includes patient demographics and structural characteristics of clinics.
Author(s): Judith Bernstein, Christina Gebel, Clemencia Vargas, et al.
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 13
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
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Emergency Department Visits for Children and Young Adults With Diabetes, 2012
Reports on diabetes-related emergency department visits, which may be related to undetected or poorly controlled diabetes, among children and young adults aged 0-29 years. Includes data by location of patient residence, for urban and rural locations.
Author(s): Aitalohi Amaize, Kamila B. Mistry
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Reports on diabetes-related emergency department visits, which may be related to undetected or poorly controlled diabetes, among children and young adults aged 0-29 years. Includes data by location of patient residence, for urban and rural locations.
Author(s): Aitalohi Amaize, Kamila B. Mistry
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Meeting the Needs of the Whole Child through CATCH
Highlights the implementation of the Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) program, which supports healthy eating and physical activity in rural Illinois elementary schools.
Author(s): Jenn Lukens
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Highlights the implementation of the Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) program, which supports healthy eating and physical activity in rural Illinois elementary schools.
Author(s): Jenn Lukens
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Association of Blood Lead Levels in Children 0-72 Months with Living in Mid-Appalachia: A Semi-Ecologic Study
Compares the blood lead levels in children ages 0–72 months in Mid-Appalachia with children of same age throughout the U.S. Includes a relational comparison of the number of housing units built before 1950 and 1940 in both regions.
Author(s): R. Constance Wiener, Richard J. Jurevic
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 16(2), 3597
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
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Compares the blood lead levels in children ages 0–72 months in Mid-Appalachia with children of same age throughout the U.S. Includes a relational comparison of the number of housing units built before 1950 and 1940 in both regions.
Author(s): R. Constance Wiener, Richard J. Jurevic
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 16(2), 3597
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
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Barriers, Benefits and Behaviors Related to Breakfast Consumption among Rural Adolescents
Analyzes perceived barriers, benefits, and modifiable behaviors that support or interfere with breakfast consumption in 16 racially and economically diverse rural high schools in Minnesota. Includes data for students who reported skipping breakfast in three categories: overall, 0-2 days, or 3 or more days, by socioeconomic status (SES), race, grade, sex, weight categories, breakfast beliefs, barriers, and benefits scales.
Author(s): Mary O. Hearst, Amy Shanafelt, Qi Wang, Robert Leduc, Marilyn S. Nanney
Citation: Journal of School Health, 86(3), 187-194
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
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Analyzes perceived barriers, benefits, and modifiable behaviors that support or interfere with breakfast consumption in 16 racially and economically diverse rural high schools in Minnesota. Includes data for students who reported skipping breakfast in three categories: overall, 0-2 days, or 3 or more days, by socioeconomic status (SES), race, grade, sex, weight categories, breakfast beliefs, barriers, and benefits scales.
Author(s): Mary O. Hearst, Amy Shanafelt, Qi Wang, Robert Leduc, Marilyn S. Nanney
Citation: Journal of School Health, 86(3), 187-194
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
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Geographic Variation in Mortality Among Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Cancer in Tennessee: Does Race Matter?
Presents a study of geographic variation of children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer in rural Tennessee. Analyzes data by race and mortality. Includes a maps of urban/rural mortality and mortality clusters for cancer patients under 21 from 2004-2011.
Author(s): Lisa C. Lindley, Tonny J. Oyana
Citation: Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 33(2), 129-136
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
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Presents a study of geographic variation of children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer in rural Tennessee. Analyzes data by race and mortality. Includes a maps of urban/rural mortality and mortality clusters for cancer patients under 21 from 2004-2011.
Author(s): Lisa C. Lindley, Tonny J. Oyana
Citation: Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 33(2), 129-136
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
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